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My Speakers Are a Radio

Up here at my cabin, we have no TV reception, so we have a system of a DVD player, TV, and some Altec-Lansing computer speakers for audio. I’ve noticed when the TV and DVD are off, if I raise the audio cable, I can hear some low, static filled radio sound from the speakers.

With some investigation, I found by extending the speaker’s audio input cable up and away, I get a medium strength radio signal, and matching it to a radio, my speakers are picking up FM 101.1:

On other unworldy communication fronts, my refrigerator has been pinging Technorati with requests for refills, the coffee maker is publishing RSS feeds updated with each brew cycle, and the toaster is posting really bizarre YouTube videos.

An early 90s builder of the web and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person.

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Here at UMW, the appliances on campus have caught the same bug. The laundry machines in the dorms actually email or text message students when their loads are done. Seriously. We call the project “eSuds.”

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